Austria's Franz Wins Beaver Creek World Cup Super-G
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published December 02, 2018 | 04:04 AM
Los Angeles, Dec 1 (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 2nd Dec, 2018 ) :Austrian Max Franz captured his second victory of the World Cup season, winning the super-G at Beaver Creek to seize the lead in the overall standings.
Franz, winner of the first downhill of the season at Lake Louise last weekend, made the most of his early start position, clocking 1min 01.91sec on a Birds of Prey course where heavy snow twice postponed the start and made things difficult for racers.
"Today I have the luck on my side," admitted Franz, who finished 33-hundredths of a second in front of Switzerland's Mauro Caviezel. "The weather is not easy, the slope is very bumpy. It's not easy." Caviezel, the 14th starter, dealt with some of the worst of blowing snow and poor visibility, but put together a run that knocked the trio of Aksel Lund Svindal, Dominik Paris and Kilde Aleksander Aamodt to the bottom step of the podium, all sharing third place on 1:02.
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It was Caviezel's second runner-up finish in two days, after he followed compatriot Beat Feuz home in Friday's downhill, and his third World Cup super-G podium.
Franz, a 29-year-old from Klagenfurt, has now posted two of his three career World Cup victories in quick succession.
"I don't know," he said when asked what accounted for his red-hot form. "My skiing is really good. Lake Louise, starting number one, I also was lucky with the weather."Franz moved atop the overall standings with 238 points, with Caviezel second on 227.
Vincent Kriechmayr, who topped the standings coming into the race, was bumped down to third on 211 points after a seventh-placed finish.
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